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The White Sox's offensive woes this season have been well-documented, from the early struggles of Juan Pierre to the ongoing ones for Adam Dunn, Alex Rios and Gordon Beckham. The Sox were ninth in American League hitting Wednesday and manager Ozzie Guillen went on one of his famous tangents when asked about Rios as the Sox skipped batting practice before Wednesday's game against the Royals. “It’s a lot of people struggling here,” he said. “Now, (media) can’t attack Juan Pierre anymore.

SURPRISE, Ariz. — Rookie third baseman Brent Morel has struck out only twice in his first 21 at-bats, which gives White Sox hitting coach Greg Walker a reason not to panic. "He has a good brain for this game," Walker said of Morel, 23, who is batting .143 after going 0-for-4 and stranding four runners Thursday night against the Diamondbacks. "Chicago is a tough place for any player to break in. The White Sox are a tough place because there are high expectations. "He has some things going for him. He's a good bunter.

Greg Walker is relinquishing his position as Chicago White Sox hitting coach, bringing an end to a turbulent nine-year tenure during which he clashed with general manager Ken Williams. Walker said before Wednesday's season finale that he decided about a month ago that he would step down and informed team chairman Jerry Reinsdorf. Walker said he will have dinner with Reinsdorf but has no other future plans at this time. Paul Konerko expressed regret over Walker's departure.

The White Sox will honor former hitting coach Greg Walker during their traditional Sunday festivities honoring members of their 1983 "Winning Ugly" team. This marks Walker's first visit to U.S. Cellular Field since he stepped down after the 2011 season and soon began working for the Braves, who play the Sox this weekend. Walker declined an invitation to throw out the ceremonial first pitch with special assistant Art Kusnyer before Sunday's game, but Walker emphasized his decision has nothing to do with the Sox. "I did decline the invitation, but it's because I'm the hitting coach for the Braves," Walker said Thursday.

WASHINGTON - Pitching coach Don Cooper's bout of diverticulitis is severe enough to prevent him from joining the White Sox for the remainder of this 10-game trip. Cooper, 57, who has been hospitalized since Tuesday, will return to his offseason home in Nashville once he is released with the hope he can rejoin the Sox when they open their next homestand April 19. "He won't be with us in Cleveland or Toronto," manager Robin Ventura said. "He's in enough pain. I talked to him (Thursday)

The apprenticeship of Greg Walker is over. He knows it. The White Sox know it. The rest of the American League will learn. "I`m not promising to hit .350 and drive in 140 runs," Walker said. Not that he couldn`t. That's his potential. "Potential," said Walker, "means you`re not doing it now." On a warm, sun-washed day in the subtropics, Walker has worn out two antique batting practice pitchers--Glen Rosenbaum and Moe Drabowsky--and the mechanical pitching machine in the batting cage is sweating nearly as much as Walker is. The rest of the Sox have left one spring training complex for the other, and still Walker is running sprints in the outfield.

The way Greg Walker tells it, the toughest part of his life-threatening seizure wasn't the seizure itself, which left him gasping for air as his face turned purple. And it wasn't the toll it took on his playing career. The toughest part was the uncertainty. Nearly 15 years after he collapsed before a game at Comiskey Park, Walker still doesn't know what caused it. "The doctors told me it could be anything--an aspirin, something I ate and had a bad reaction to, maybe dehydration," Walker said.

There was no defense for it in White Sox manager Jim Fregosi's office after his team offered a 4-3 victory to the Boston Red Sox on Friday. The victory, Boston's ninth straight under new manager Joe Morgan, came courtesy of a Donnie Hill error, the Sox's 93d of the year in their 95th game. "It was another game where we had difficulty catching the ball," Fregosi observed after watching his team sink nine games below .500. "Donnie looked like he tried to make the play before he caught the ball."

PHOENIX — After evaluating for four weeks, the White Sox have stepped in to help find the Mark Teahen that haunted them for the last five seasons. "Right now the effort level is too high," hitting coach Greg Walker said Sunday morning. That was before Teahen headed to the minor league complex to get extra at-bats in an effort to find the stroke that produced a .404 batting average against the Sox last season while playing for the Royals. "There's no fluidity to it. Everything is hard.

Atlanta Braves hitting coach Greg Walker said his “shelf life” ran out on the South Side and he was ready to move on after 10 years in the White Sox organization, including nine as the major league hitting coach. “Our shelf life just ran out, and I've known it for a couple years,” he said. “I know the popular opinion was I was not the right guy for the hitting coach job in Chicago for a few years. But I felt I was, and I wasn't going to quit on the people I care about -- (Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf)